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Burial Act 1855
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IXPart of Section 24 of 15 & 16 Vict. c.85 repealed. Burial Ground not to be within 100 Yards of a Dwelling House.
So much of the said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty as enacts that "no Ground (not already used as or appropriated for a Cemetery) shall be appropriated as a Burial Ground " or as an Addition to a Burial Ground under that Act nearer than " Two hundred Yards to any Dwelling House, without the Consent " in Writing of the Owner, Lessee, and Occupier of such Dwelling " House," shall be repealed ; but no Ground not already used as or appropriated for a Cemetery shall be used for Burials under the said Act or this Act, or either of them, within the Distance of One hundred Yards from any Dwelling House, without such Consent as aforesaid.
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